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spin off

verb

  1. to create a new entity based on an existing entity
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Wiktionary

verb

  1. To create (something) as a by-product or a secondary derived work.

    “a line of merchandise spun off from a TV series”

    “For example, an OS/2-based data manager might spin off a thread to sort a file or allow two files to be sorted at the same time, one using CPU time while the other is waiting for disk I/O.”